This is the most amusing post that I have seen which tries it’s best to show Israel in the best light. But, I’m actually cracking up here that the individual who tries his best to “prove” Israel is not a racist state is an Academic from Goldsmiths College, University of London. None other than David Hirsh “oi punk, your anti-Semitic”. Is this the best the Zionists can bring out?

Here’s his bio:

David Hirsh, the Editor of Engage, is a lecturer in sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.  He wrote Law against Genocide: Cosmopolitan Trials (GlassHouse 2004), which won the BSA Philip Abrams Prize for the best first book in sociology in 2004.  David is currently working on antisemitism and anti-Zionism; nationalism and cosmopolitanism; cosmopolitan and international law; human rights; ethnic cleansing and genocide; Israel/Palestine and fundamentalism.  David played a leading role in the campaign to reverse the AUT boycott of Israeli universities.

Here what David Hirsh “oi punk, your Anti-Semitic” says which "proves" Israel isn’t a racist state:

If Israel is a “Nazi” or “racist” state, then how could it be that someone is charged with incitement by the Jerusalem District Attorney for arguing that Arabs should be expelled from the Occupied Territories and for threatening genocidal violence against them?

Okay, let’s get to business and see if David Hirch “oi punk, your anti-Semitic” has “proved” that Israel isn’t a racist or a nazi state.

I’ll let others do the writing so lets tackle the first one.

Is Israel a racist state, we will compare Israel with South Africa (when it was an apartheid state):

The following list, paraphrased from Dr. Davis’s observations, offers some sobering food for thought:

1. Israel: The Apartheid Wall (which the government labels a “Security Wall”) forces communities apart and unlawfully grabs land.

South Africa: Segregated Bantustans, officially (but falsely) called “Independent Homelands,” forced millions of African blacks to be herded into artificial landlocked reserves.

2. Israel: Jewish residents in West Jerusalem who need government services face a relatively short wait in air-conditioned comfort. In East Jerusalem, Palestinians begin queuing in the middle of the night, or pay someone else to do so, for a remote chance of being served. Once the sun comes up, they wait for hours outside in the heat before an iron-grilled gate for what should be routine requests, such as; identity documents, birth registrations, death certificates, etc. They often go home empty-handed.

South Africa: In Johannesburg, whites, blacks and mixed-race “coloureds” were directed to separate entrances of government offices, such as the Home Affairs Ministry, and given service — or not — entirely according to their skin colour.

3. Israel: East Jerusalem imposes strict territorial classifications on Palestinian residents that dictate who you can marry, where you can live, where you can go to school, even where (or if) you can get into a hospital.

South Africa: South Africa had similar classifications, based on race; regarding who one could marry, where one could live, where one was to attend school, or be admitted to hospital.

4. Israel: Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, which is often also the city of their birth, are nevertheless classified only as immigrants with “permanent resident” status there — not as citizens in their own right.

South Africa: Most of the black population were treated not as citizens of the cities and townships where they were born, but as citizens of distant ancestral homelands that many (as well as their parents, even grandparents) had never visited.

5. Israel: It is now the only western society to deny construction permits to people solely on the grounds of race.

South Africa: Under Apartheid, construction permits were issued or denied on the basis of race.

6. Israel: Urban planning has been intentionally been directed toward the political objective of eliminating all Palestinian presence from the country’s urban landscape, especially in Jerusalem where the inequality of Jewish and Palestinian sectors increases substantially with every passing year.

South Africa: Under Apartheid, the “group area” planning system targeted blacks in a similar way, with the goal of moving them into invisibility, away from white centres of population.

7. Israel: Through the Jewish National Fund and the Israeli Lands Authority, successive Israeli governments have reserved 93% of the land for Jews only: much of this land was expropriated by the state from original Arab owners without compensation.

South Africa: In colonial and Apartheid South Africa, 87% of the land was reserved for whites. The Population Registration Act categorized South Africans according to an array of racial definitions which, among other things, determined who would be permitted to live on white-reserved lands.

8. Israel: Israel maintains separate schools for Arabs and Jews on the grounds of language differences, but many Israeli Arab parents have challenged this segregation system as a cover for systematic state- sanctioned discrimination.

South Africa: Separate and unequal education systems were a central part of the Apartheid regime’s strategy to limit black children to lives of subservient manual labour in mines, factories and fields. In many parts of post-Apartheid South Africa, the education system still has not recovered.

9. Israel: Israelis who marry Palestinians are not allowed to bring their spouses to live with them in the Jews-only part of the country.

South Africa: During the mid-1980s, the Komani Case successfully challenged the Apartheid “pass laws” that broke up black families by preventing rural spouses from joining husbands or wives who worked in towns.

10. Israel: Most Israeli Jews believe they are the Chosen People, God’s Elect, and claim that the Torah (Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament) justifies their racism and Zionist exclusivity.

South Africa: The Dutch Reformed Church also used the Old Testament to legitimize Apartheid and to assert white Afrikaaner superiority. And based on the Dutch colonists’ victory over the Zulus at the battle of Blood River, they continued to believe that God sided with whites.

11. Israel and South Africa: Under both regimes, the repressed populations have been demonized as “terrorists” to justify ever- greater violations of their human and civil rights. Both regimes have tried to convince the rest of the world of the absurdly false logic that the victims are to blame for violence the state meted out to them. Apartheid South Africa and Apartheid Israel are prime examples of how terrorist states try to absolve themselves by blaming their victims.

12. White South Africa and Israel have both painted themselves as enclaves of democratic civilization, defending the front line of Western values. Ironically, however, both governments have often demanded that the rest of the world judge them by the standards of neighbors from which they claimed to be protecting the “free world.”

13. Israel is rapidly constructing a parallel network of West Bank roads for Palestinians, who are barred from using the many existing (and superior) routes reserved for Jews only. B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, describes this system as bearing clear similarities to Apartheid’s exclusionary and isolating alternate road system that existed in racist South Africa.

14. Israel: The so-called Security Wall (really an Apartheid wall) is another land-grab to draw even more of the Occupied Territories permanently away from Palestinians, depriving them of community, livelihood, education, and resources.

South Africa: Apartheid was all about keeping the best parts of the country for whites only and herding blacks into the least habitable, least desirable, and least serviced parts of the country.

15. Israel and South Africa: In Israel, Palestinians are almost daily being dispossessed of their houses, fields and orchards by state- ordered bulldozing. During the heyday of South African Apartheid, population relocation programs also resulted in property destruction, but not on the same scale as that inflicted in the West Bank against Palestinians.

Now, for the second one. Is Israel a Nazi State, I’ll let DesertPeace (A Jewish Brother who is based in Jerusalem):

Zionists get very defensive when a comparison is made to the present situation in Occupied Palestine to that of the Jews living under nazi occupation. In that light, I will not add any commentary here, except to ask one question…. CAN YOU SEE THE SIMILARITIES???

Children and adult prisoners

Children under the age of around 12 were generally deemed unfit for work and were therefore immediately taken to the gas chambers. However, death may have been preferable because those who were allowed to work were treated with equal contempt by the SS.

Upon having their prisoner ID tattooed on them, the children were sent to work in either a factory, quarry, or some other strenuous and monotonous place of work. Their shifts lasted from 10 to 14 hours. After the day’s work was finished, the children were subjected to incredibly long roll calls, during which some even died. This routine continued for what could be months until the prisoners were either sent to the gas chambers or died from malnourishment or exhaustion.

Between the time of registration into the camp and death, prisoners were subjected to a number of demeaning and torturous ordeals. Prisoners were often beaten, whipped, or hung from beams with their hands behind them. This ordeal was done with their feet just inches from the ground. Prisoners were also regularly shot so that the SS could maintain a feeling of control.

These dreadful ordeals combined to create a genuinely miserable experience within the camps. As a result, many inmates embraced or welcomed death.

The following is taken from THIS report on Israeli prisons. Thanks to Sabbah for originally posting this segment.

Forced labor for Palestinian children in Israeli prison

Many Palestinian children in Israeli Telmond Prison are being exploited by “forced labor in which they must work eight hours for a few shekels,” as reported by the Prisoners Information Center.

One of the children made a statement after his release. “The prison administration has forced all prisoners in Telmond Prison to work eight hours for very low wages.” He went on to say, “The Israeli soldiers come to the chambers at seven and force us to go with our legs tied with chains.” The child added that his job was to stand under guard and pack plastic spoons in boxes.

Even injured political prisoners are forced to work, according to Friday’s Nablus-based report. A former prisoner stated, “I had a broken bone but the soldiers forced me out of my cell to work anyway, without any consideration for the pain.”

There are approximately 375 Palestinians in Telmond Prison, with most of them being children. The oldest Palestinian in Telmond is 22 years old. The child laborers are given two meals per 24 hours, one at 11:00 pm and another at 6:00 am.

Israeli prison officials also attempt to extract information from children regarding members of the armed resistance and engage in frequent psychological abuse

According to the Information Center there are 200 children less than 16 years old in Israeli prisons begin subjected to some of the worst forms of exploitation and humiliation. A total of 376 Palestinian children are currently imprisoned in Israeli prisons and detention camps.

Source: Jihad and the city

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